Quotes about Consequences
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
- Ronald Reagan
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
- Ronald Reagan
The decisions you make today matter. Every decision points your life in the direction you are about to travel. No decision is an isolated choice. It's a chain of events. If you choose wisely, your future will reflect that. But if you don't choose wisely, the decisions you make now will take you to places you don't want to be later.
- Lysa TerKeurst
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
- Madeleine L'Engle
You must not refuse to do this, or you, too, will be accused. In the town they have convicted entire families." Richard said, "There was another carpenter, once, and he would have refused to do this thing. Him I will follow.
- Madeleine L'Engle
You're not responsible for how you feel. You're responsible for what you do
- Madeleine L'Engle
I was only just beginning to realize what a horribly destructive thing hate is, how it destroys inwards as well as outwards. I
- Madeleine L'Engle
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. It is much easier to steal one hundred pounds than to get it by labour or any other way.
- Samuel Johnson
Once we have embraced sin in this way and rejected our covenant with God, only a calamity can save us.
- Scott Hahn
God does not avenge certain crimes in this world, but postpones punishment to the next, to deal with them all the more severely; conversely.
- John Calvin
Rom. 7:10, that the law is turned into a source of ruin for us, not because it is evil but because we are wicked.
- John Calvin
Now, if any one should object, that it is unjust for the innocent to bear the punishment of another's sin, I answer, whatever gifts God had conferred upon us in the person of Adams he had the best right to take away, when Adam wickedly fell.
- John Calvin